App Detail » Penguin Classics: A Complete Annotated Listing

What's New

- minor bug fix and performance enhancements

App Description

For sixty-five years Penguin Classics has been the leading publisher of literature in the English-speaking world, providing readers with a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Now, in an effort to further enhance the discovery of great literary content, comes the Penguin Classics Complete Annotated Listing iPhone App.

This exciting Web-based app connects you to the classics like never before, putting the complete, annotated descriptions of all Penguin Classics currently in print right in your pocket!

Unique features include:

• The Complete Annotated List of the Penguin Classics library, searchable by title or author.

• “Discover the Classics” section which lets you populate books based upon Subject, Genre, Time Period, and Region. Feeling lucky? Give your iPhone a shake and see what the App finds for you.

• Quizzes that will test your knowledge of over 60 Penguin Classics.

• Facebook integration so you can share you quiz scores, as well as Penguin Classics you’ve read and Penguin Classics you want to read, with your Facebook friends.

• An Essential Classics section, a must for any Classics aficionado!

• The app will be continually updated with news, additional quizzes and lists, events info, and the latest Penguin Classics titles.

“Social-media buttons can broadcast your love of “Homer’s Odyssey” or Dickens’s “A Tale of Two Cities” to your friends, and a “More Like This” button will direct you to related titles. Most enjoyable, however, are the quizzes…that ask questions across all 65 titles (you can choose a quiz that takes one, five or 10-minutes long) if you want to relive that comp lit class you took freshman year.”
-- The New York Times/Gadgetwise

"Penguin Classics--publisher of lit guides, special editions, and classics ranging from The Odyssey to On the Road--is doing for iPhone book browsing what Urbanspoon did for restaurant searching."
-- Fast Company

"Penguin Classics has one of the finest back catalogs of books anywhere ... And they just made that catalog available as a free iPhone app."
-- The Dayton Daily News

"If you're a lover of classic literature and also an app addict, this will certainly satisfy."
-- Phillyburbs.com


Note:

• You must have 3G or Wifi enabled on your device in order to utilize this App.

App Changes

• July 04, 2011 Initial release